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I find it hard to reconcile the childish religious image we have of a kind and just God with the reality of the world around us. I find it simplistic to think that there is a Good one (God) and a Bad one (Satan). Religious mumbo jumbo is responsible for so much pain and suffering now and in the past.

The Churches are pretty evil - 'only I can communicate with your god, and only through me will you get everlasting life (!). Therefore I will set myself up and this will be my job, for which you will pay me money and I will tell you how to live your life. Also, only our way is right and everyone else is wrong and must be either converted to our way of thinking or they are an enemy' Stone Age stuff.

Why do humans always think they are the 'chosen ones'? If the universe is infinite, then there are an infinite number of different species out there. Yet God made us 'in His image'. I don't think so. All cultures have a creation and religious myth, so therefore it is likely that 'aliens' would have as well - until they simply grow out of it of course.

The Bible was written by people with a vested interest in it, they were primitive societies (yes, even Rome). many of the stories are allegorical and people who believe that this could possibly be the literal truth sound misguided to me.

Creationism being told as part of the national curriculum now in some States in the US? (except they have rebranded it 'intelligent design' ........ shocking.
Do you really want to address those questions or are you just giving your opinion? Your statement that many of the stories are allegorical, which ones? And how do you know? By the way EVERYTHING is written by someone who has a vested interest. Do you think text books are written by people with vested interests, how about newspaper articles? It's very humorous to hear people say that these were primitive societies when the languages they used were much more advanced than ours.